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### Question: What are the symptoms of mastoiditis?
### Response: Mastoiditis is often difficult to detect because most children affected by this disorder do not yet have sufficient speech and language skills to tell someone what is bothering them. Common signs to look for are:
Recent episode of ear infection
Ear pain and posterior ear pain Unusual irritability Difficulty sleeping Tugging or pulling at one or both ears Fever Fluid draining from the ear Loss of balance Unresponsiveness to quiet sounds or other signs of hearing difficulty such as sitting too close to the television or being inattentive Clumsiness and poor balance Headache Lethargy Common cold symptoms